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[HowTo] Add Custom Pages to WOL

by noppid 11 Jun 2005

I'd like to suggest we follow the the way we did this in the past for the most part. We usually hacked into the two switch statements in the functions_online.php file. So staying with that convention, we can all easily coexist in the two necessary plugins will we need to use to accomplish this.

Why did I say coexist? Well based on this thread, multiple use of hooks, it seems it would be best to share a common plugin to a given hook location for now. That is if I understand it correctly.

So moving right along, this will help you create WOL plugins for your custom pages either way. If we all share a plugin or if we get a system that manages multiple plugins to a given hook, this should be a good example to follow when you need to display custom addin page WOL information.

There are two hook locations we need to add plugins to:

vBulletin : Who's Online? -> online_location_process
vBulletin : Who's Online? -> online_location_unknown

Add the online_location_process hook plugin...
Hook Location: online_location_process
Name: WOL Online Location Process
Active: YES
Code:

PHP Code:


if($filename=='YOUR_ADDIN_FILE.php'){$userinfo['activity'] = 'YOUR_ACTIVITY';}

Add the online_location_unknown hook plugin...
Hook Location: online_location_unknown
Name: WOL Online Location Unknown
Active: YES
Code:

PHP Code:


if($userinfo['activity']=='YOUR_ACTIVITY')

{

    $userinfo['where'] = '<a href="YOUR_ADDIN_FILE.php?'.$vbulletin->session->vars[sessionurl].'">'.$vbulletin->options[bbtitle].' YOUR_ACTIVITY</a>'; 

    $userinfo['action'] = 'YOUR_ACTIVITY';

    $handled = true;

}

Following this convention should allow us to coexist in one plugin for each of those hooks or create good plugins for those hooks, either way.

I hope this is in the spirit of the howto forum and will be useful.

Regards

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